Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Wingard's Azaleas Colored Pencil on Stonehenge 8.5" x 27"

What a fun painting this has been! All those tiny flowers and leaves really appealed to my compulsive side. I am about done but may adjust a few tiny things, like those white spots in the trees where you can see the sky, they are distracting and look like flowers.

I added shadows in the parking lot that were not in my reference. But as my artist daughter says painters can do a painting any how they want! I had to take a couple shadow hunting trips to get the idea in my mind of how to render them. One thing I noticed is in summer when the light has warmer light cast shadows are more blue and the light they surround is warmer. So I laid my shadows on the parking lot in with cool grays and then blended them with blue violet. Then I went over the lights in the shadows with light peach. When there was enough color laid down I blended them again with a heavy hand using both the blue violet and the light peach. This softened the edges and made it all look more shadowy.

The Wingards are going to have an open house and arts event on October 10. I wish I could be there but I will be out of town. I had thought I would have this painting there but the State Fair will be on going then and I have entered this in the Fine Art Competition at the fair. Shucks!!! A giclee will just have to do!

About Me

I became an artist thanks to fibromyalgia. For two years I was so sick all I could do was sit in a chair or lie in bed and draw. I was so weak I would be breathless walking across a room. I lost 30 pounds. My lowest weight was 98 pounds. By a stroke of luck I met R. Paul St. Amand M.D., Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Harbor UCLA, on line www.fibromyalgiatreatment.com He and his medical assistant, Claudia Marek, worked with me on line for weeks to help me get started on Dr. St. Amand’s guaifenesin protocol for the reversal of FMS. I didn’t know it at the time but they were worried I would die before I would get well. I was that sick.
I have been on Dr. St. Amand’s protocol for thirteen years now. Since starting I have gone back to work as a pediatric occupational therapist, wrote a complicated and long textbook chapter for an editor friend, started two businesses and retired from one. Now I continue my dream, the pursuit of art. If not for FMS I would have never been forced to sit down and practice my skills and I would never have become brave enough to share it with the world on line. For more of my FMS story please see: http://www.fibromyalgiatreatment.com/team.htm